maybe the c is really s ; )
also, like said upthread i associate the "sch" usage with being a hayseed but i guess it's really just a regional thing
― velko, Thursday, 9 July 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
growing up it was gross-ree store ... Usually, I just say the name of the store and not supermarket or grocery store.
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Thursday, 9 July 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"i'm going to Edwards"
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Thursday, 9 July 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Hah, I guess for me it's sort of a byproduct of having lived on and off in desolate, barren south Jersey for the past couple of years. You'd probably find oil out here before a local grocer. big xp
― I hurt your arm and now I want to dress your arm, please (dyao), Thursday, 9 July 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Why ever would you not pronounce "grocery" as "gross-er-ree?"New England, apologies to askance johnson.
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
There's this thing called regionalism
― timelord of the internet (Z S), Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i was thinking velko meant a hard c
I do sometimes say "grockeries" to be "funny"
― nabisco, Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"grockerinos"
i say "gross - ree." i don't think i've ever heard "grosh - ree."
― Visually-striking Cerebral Movies from the 1960s (get bent), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
As a form of mockery, would you say?
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
A form of mossery.
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
gross-ree (two syllables)
(central / southern california)
tiny bit of sch in there tho
― iatee, Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Somewhere between gross-ree and gross-er-ee
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 July 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I pronounce it su-per-mar-ket...
Same here. Must be a South Jersey thing.
― kickstand. kickstand? kickstand! (los blue jeans), Thursday, 9 July 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
for the in between people, is the break at the o rather than the c? gro-seree?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 9 July 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
grosch-ree, new england, usa
― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― ian, Thursday, 9 July 2009 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
regionally: new york city, central new york state, and los angeles. although my family (nyc-based) didn't say "grocery" much; they were more likely to say "the supermarket" or "the store" or the name of the particular store.
― Visually-striking Cerebral Movies from the 1960s (get bent), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah "grosch-ree" is the closest to how i say it, and how i always heard it said in upstate/western ny. it's basically the same "OSCH" sound as "ocean."
― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
with the "hot dogs v. tacos" thread still active, i'm reminded of the old "how do you say 'hot dog'" question.
i'm a total over-enunciator, so i say "hot *stop* dog.
― Visually-striking Cerebral Movies from the 1960s (get bent), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
with the "o" sound like the first "a" in the name roger.
― Visually-striking Cerebral Movies from the 1960s (get bent), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
dammit, i initially wrote margaret and not roger -- so much for making sense.
― Visually-striking Cerebral Movies from the 1960s (get bent), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I say supermarket or "the shops", rather than "grocery", though I'll refer to "groceries" for the items there obtained.
― lolsbury hill (Trayce), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The more I ponder it, the more "grocery" as a a noun from "a grocer" seems quite... Mr Burns-ish. like "fish and chippery".
― lolsbury hill (Trayce), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
pizzeria = pizzery?
― Visually-striking Cerebral Movies from the 1960s (get bent), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
hair cuttery
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean imagine if there was a place called that. wouldn't that be crazy.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
gross-er-ree groin
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 July 2009 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
me and my people would say "we're going to the store"
if it came down to what kind of store, we'd probably say the proper name before "the gross-ree store"
― Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Thursday, 9 July 2009 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
My girlfriend just informed me she says "grosch-ree." Which is weird because a) she grew up in the Chicago area, just like me, and b) somehow I never noticed this in the past year and a half we've been living together and going to the grocery store together just about every week.
― sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Sunday, 12 July 2009 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 12 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
An even hundred.
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Sunday, 12 July 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
OTM though "gross-er-ree" is possible too.
― Sundar, Sunday, 12 July 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I never knew "grosch" pronunciations were regional. There was an Aflac TV spot that ran about a million times last year where an actor said "grosch-er-ree," and I think I made a retching noise whenever I heard it.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I say "grosch-er-ee" and now I'm worried that it makes other people retch whenever I say it. Sorry, retchers! Although, the tendency for east coasters to leave the double t's out of words (kitten> kih-en, button>buh-on) kinda makes me retch too.
― Tom Pagnozzi (Z S), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i alternate. sometimes my t's are so crisp.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
For some reason, this thread is cracking me up.
― youn, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Z S i do that. sorry! but i can't make my mouth say it any other way unless i try really hard.
― permanent response lopp (harbl), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes i'll even say it like all british with the very, very slight CHH sound on the "t"
"i lost the buttchon"
but that's not very common
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
thinkin about this--i drop t's at the end of sentences too. "i couldn't do ih"
― permanent response lopp (harbl), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I never knew "grosch" pronunciations were regional.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
as far as i can tell, it isn't regional
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like I'm putting on fancy airs if I pronounce the double ts in the middle of words. I think I do that t-dropping think at the ends of sentences that harbl describes, too.
I was hanging out with my cousin and a friend of his last week and they both have awesome mid-Atlantic accents and the friend would finish sentences with the USA mid-Atlantic regional equivalent of "innit," which is more like "idnit?" (or "dudnit?" or "wudnit?" for "doesn't it?" and "wasn't it?" respectively) and it made me nostalgic and a little sad because I used to say that all the time until people from NJ, a state with plenty of linguistic quirks of its own, that I met in college mocked it right out of my speech.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like I'm putting on fancy airs if I pronounce the double ts in the middle of words.
Had a friend in college who did this, overenunciating the "t" in words where most Americans would either drop it or turn it into a "d." Turns out her dad was English and she had lived there until she was 9, but her accent wasn't strong enough for that to be obvious, so a lot of people just thought she was pretentious.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
people who voted for anything other than gross-ree are disgusting savages imo
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
OK surm, I wanna meet you so I can hear this.
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
well it's very like virginia woolfe from the hours
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
that's why i don't do it that often... maybe in the privacy of my own home more than anything else
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I didn't go near that shit. I couldn't even get 60 pages into Mrs. Dalloway. xp
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
omgosh i know i've tried mrs dalloway like 3 times
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
My favorite answer to this poll would be at 1:49 on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Szl_JyCUQ
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